Poverty In Charles Dickens

“Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man’s pockets.” The writing of Charles Dickens often shows that people use their condition to make people feel bad and give money to them. Poverty plays a major roll in Dickens writings, he shows people that no matter how a person appears, you should treat them with the same respect that you treat yourself with. The people of Victorian London in that time didn’t have all the things that we have today, they had to play in alleys, while we play in our yards and they had to dress with what we considered rags, while we can choose whatever we want to wear. Beggars were seen all over the streets of London, they wore filthy clothes and never showered their bodies, so the streets always …show more content…
( history.com ) Charles used his childhood to drive himself forward and write his novels. Charles uses a lot of what he went through as a child to give him passion for many of his novels, like Oliver Twist and David Copperfield. His novels reflect what Dickens tried to do in his life which was to aid others with what he had and not keep it for himself. In many of his novels, you will see the detail and passion that he puts into the book. Dickens make the scenery of his books as realistic as he can to the real world, he describes the streets to be dirty and smelly and make you thankful that we don’t have to deal with that today. Charles was a very munificent man to poor, he always wanted to help in any way he could to make their day better. His way of doing that was writing books and selling them at a price that the lower class people could afford. He was well known around the streets of London because of all the deeds he had done for the people that lived there. The main worries of the people was the rapid industrialization of …show more content…
Many different types of factors were built but probably the most common was a blacking factory, which is where Dickens worked at as a child. The life of a poor person offered little joy, all they did was work all day every day, and then get little sleep and do it all over again. Child labor was an dreadful but common thing in that time. Some children would start working very young and never got to experience what it was like to live the life of a regular kid and the kids worked in mines, factories, and houses. In the Bible, there are many different verses about poverty and